A Poet’s Guide to Britain
A Poet’s Guide to Britain by Owen Sheers is a significant poetry anthology published by Penguin Classics in 2010. This edition, comprising 368 pages, presents a curated selection of poems that explore the relationship between poetry and place, reflecting on how these works shape our identities and perceptions of the British landscape.
In this anthology, Owen Sheers organizes the poems under six distinct categories, including London and Cities, Villages and Towns, and Coast and Sea. Each section features poems that capture the essence of various landscapes, offering readers a rich tapestry of voices that resonate with the themes of place and identity. This collection not only complements the BBC series but also includes Sheers’ personal favorites, providing a diverse exploration of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh poetry.
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Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet’s Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right.
Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience – our identities, our country, and our land. Under the headings of six varieties of British landscape – London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea – he has collected poems that evoke qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series, while also supplementing the poems included in the programme with his own personal favourites.
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